to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I wanted to do

something fun and share with you what I would do if I was unemployed

specifically when it comes to looking for a new job so stay tuned

as a career strategist I have had the ability to help numerous corporate

ambitious professionals just like you to land their dream job offers and if this

is something that you're more interested in learning about I can share details

about that as well as my free resources available to you at the end of this

video now you may or may not know this but in the past I used to be a corporate

recruiter and I worked with hundreds probably even thousands of individuals

who were looking for jobs now many of them were employed but there were also a

good number of them who were unemployed and so I got to see firsthand what that

experience was like for them and so today I want to share with you what I

would do if I was in a position like that where I was unemployed looking for

a job a corporate position and how I would go about it and hopefully this

will help you if you're in the same position right now now the very first

thing that I would do this is something that I feel is extremely important

before even taking on any practical action steps is I would start to believe

in myself now I know this may sound weird and cheesy as a first step but it

is so important without knowing how to eliminate your negative thoughts which

by the way I have a video on how to do so feel free to check it out you will

struggle in your job search and I know this because I've seen it I've seen the

people who stay positive who believe in themselves who trust that the right

opportunity is out there and do all the things that they need to do to keep

themselves positive and in an optimistic mindset and I've also seen people who

are negative from the beginning who don't believe in themselves who think

that it's going to be a struggle I see the differences in how quickly they're

able to land their job offers and in how little or how much of a struggle they

end up going through so this is extremely important so what I would do

is I would journal I would meditate I would exercise I would do all the things

that I need to do to maintain my mental spiritual and emotional well-being so

that the next days weeks and months to come are not

going to be a struggle so if you're looking for a job stop creating it into

a struggle for yourself if you are dealing with negative

thoughts you need to rewind you need to do some deep digging and eliminate these

negative thoughts and like I said I have a video on exactly how to do that now

step number two is to create a compelling well-written

attractive resume that speaks to the recruiter why does they have to speak to

the recruiter specifically because the recruiter generally is the first set of

eyes that will be looking at your resume or CV and so if you don't know how to

craft your resume in a way that it is simple and clear and concise enough for

the recruiter to understand then you're not going to get to the level where a

hiring manager is looking at your resume recruiters are always usually the first

ones to screen your resume they identify if you're a fit for the job and then

they'll pass that on to the hiring manager who will then call you in for a

second-round interview but the recruiters are the gatekeepers so you

need to understand the strategy on how to write a clear concise simple enough

resume that demonstrates your skills knowledge and experience and speaks in

the language of the recruiter and of course the hiring manager some people

don't put enough work into their resume and I can't stress this enough on as to

how important this is the resume is your ticket the ticket to get you in the door

for an interview and then of course in the interview you have to sell yourself

and do all the right things to get the job but if you can't get in the door

with your resume then you're not going to even get a shot at being considered

for the job so if you need help with writing your

resume and figuring out the strategy then I have a resource available to you

feel free to check out my free resume mastery workshop the link is in the

description box down below or I've included the link here as well feel free

to sign up for it it's completely free and you'll learn some key strategies and

techniques on how to write an attractive compelling

su-mei that speaks the language of the recruiters and hiring managers now once

you have your resume in place the third thing that I would do is I would reach

out to employers directly on LinkedIn to apply for jobs this is something that a

lot of people don't know about if you are someone who is applying for jobs day

in and day out and you're only applying online meaning you're only submitting

through their online job boards then you are likely not getting enough interviews

from that because think about it when you're applying online through the job

boards it's you plus maybe a hundred other people applying on that same job

board and what's happening is the recruiters aren't able to filter through

all hundreds of resumes and sometimes they only look at the top two three four

five that initially came in so if you're a little bit late then you might not

even be looked at at all your resume will just drown in the sea of other

resumes so instead to counteract this to stand out one technique and strategy

that I would do if I were you is to reach out to the hiring manager and the

recruiter via LinkedIn and send them a message and send them your resume as

well and let them know that you're interested in the opportunity that

they're currently hiring for and see what happens

you're going to do that plus you're going to apply through the online job

board this has helped my one-on-one private coaching clients land job offers

simply easily and quickly because guess what they're setting themselves apart

they're putting themselves forward so of course you need to have a great LinkedIn

profile to go along with it and of course your great amazing resume but as

soon as you have those two things you can reach out and hopefully you'll get a

higher response rate and last but not the least thing that I would do step

number four is to practice interview answers every day even if you don't have

any interviews lined up yet that's what I would do the thing about getting

invited to interviews is that they can happen at any time sometimes within one

day's notice so if you're not prepared and you

haven't done any work meaning you haven't prepared your compelling stories

and examples you don't know the answer - the most common interview questions

and how you're going to explain them what's going to happen in the interviews

is that you're more likely than not you're going to make up your answers on

the spot you're going to ramble on and on you're going to stutter you're gonna

trip over your words and overall you're just not going to be able to sell

yourself well some of the basic questions that can be asked could be why

are you interested in this opportunity why should we hire you what do you know

about our company if you don't even have the basic answers to these you are going

to fail those interviews my friend now I do have a resource to help you with this

if you're struggling with your interviews I have my free interview

strategy workshop which is available to you right now it's a brand new workshop

that I've created recently if you want to get access to it feel free to follow

the link down below in the description box or you can see the link right here

and just sign up you'll learn some key strategies and techniques on how to

impress hiring managers in the interviews and I also give you a free

sample answer to one of the most common interview questions so there you have it

those are the four things that I would do if I was unemployed and looking for a

job I would do these on a daily basis now be sure to check out the resources

the workshops that I mentioned in this video so that you can get your free

training and learn the strategies and the steps that you need in order to land

your next job offer now if you are someone who is currently looking for a

new position you've been struggling in interviews you haven't been getting many

interview calls in the first place and you realize that you need one-on-one

professional help from me feel free to reach out head on over to my website

lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read through the page fill in the

application form and if it feels as though we are a potential match then one

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much for watching and I will see you in the next video